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Book Synopsis Biographical Index of the Middle Ages by :
Download or read book Biographical Index of the Middle Ages written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The index to the Biographical Archive of the Middle Ages makes accessible about 130,000 biographical articles from nearly 200 volumes. The entries contain short biographical information on approx. 95,000 persons from Europe and the Middle East who shaped the cultural development and the religious life during one thousand years.
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Medieval World 500-1300 by : Jana K. Schulman
Download or read book The Rise of the Medieval World 500-1300 written by Jana K. Schulman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 500 with the fusion of classical, Christian, and Germanic cultures and ending in 1300 with a Europe united by a desire for growth, knowledge, and change, this volume provides basic information on the significant cultural figures of the Middle Ages. It includes over 400 people whose contributions in literature, religion, philosophy, education, or politics influenced the development and culture of the Medieval world. While focusing on Western European figures, the book does not neglect those from Byzantium, Baghdad, and the Arab world who also contributed to the politics, religion, and culture of Western Europe. Europe underwent fundamental changes during the Middle Ages. It changed from a preliterate to a literate society. Cities became a vital part of the economy, culture, and social structure. The poor and serfs went to the cities. The devout joined monastic orders. Christianity spread throughout Europe, while a man was born in Mecca who would change the shape of the religious map. Islam spread throughout the Holy Land. Christian piety led to the Crusades. This book provides a convenient guide to those who helped shape these movements and counter-movements during this era that would pave the way for the Renaissance.
Download or read book Middle Ages: A-I written by Judson Knight and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive overview of the medieval period.
Download or read book Middle Ages written by Judson Knight and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing the diversity of ethnic and national groups, Middle Ages: Biographies presents 50 biographical entries in 2 vols. Featuring people from a variety of professions and social classes, chronologically arranged biographies highlight individuals who are noteworthy for their contribution to significant events in the Middle Ages, including: Marco Polo William the Conqueror Charlemagne Guido of Arezzo Lady Godiva St. Patrick St. Nicholas El Cid Leif Erikson King Alfred Justinian Heraclius Irene of Athens Great Prince Vladmir Muhammad Harun al-Rashid Rabia al Adawyya Omar Khayyam Saladin Ibn-Battuta Mehmed the Conqueror Osman Maimonides And many others Also included are 100 photographs and illustrations, sidebars, timeline, glossary, and a subject index.
Book Synopsis The Middle Ages by : Frank N. Magill
Download or read book The Middle Ages written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Book Synopsis Great Lives from History by : Shelley Wolbrink
Download or read book Great Lives from History written by Shelley Wolbrink and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 350 essays covering a number of notable historical figures of the Middle Ages beginning in 477 C.E. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and contains maps, tables, and cross-references.
Book Synopsis Middle Ages Reference Library Cumulative Index by : Judson Knight
Download or read book Middle Ages Reference Library Cumulative Index written by Judson Knight and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive overview of the medieval period.
Book Synopsis The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500 by : Clayton J. Drees
Download or read book The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500 written by Clayton J. Drees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a unique series covering the grand sweep of Western civilization from ancient to present times, this biographical dictionary provides introductory information on 315 leading cultural figures of late medieval and early modern Europe. Taking a cultural approach not typically found in general biographical dictionaries, the work includes literary, philosophical, artistic, military, religious, humanistic, musical, economic, and exploratory figures. Political figures are included only if they patronized the arts, and coverage focuses on their cultural impact. Figures from western European countries, such as Italy, France, England, Iberia, the Low Countries, and the Holy Roman Empire predominate, but outlying areas such as Scotland, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe are also represented. Late medieval Europe was an age of crisis. With the Papacy removed to Avignon, the schism in the Catholic Church shook the very core of medieval belief. The Hundred Years' War devastated France. The Black Death decimated the population. Yet out of this crisis grew an age of renewal, leading to the Renaissance. The great Italian city-states developed. Humanism reawakened interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Dante and Boccaccio began writing in their Tuscan vernacular. Italian artists became humanists and flourished. As the genius of Italy began spreading to northern and western Europe at the end of the 15th century, the age of renewal was completed. This book provides thorough basic information on the major cultural figures of this tumultuous era of crisis and renewal.
Book Synopsis Famous Men of the Middle Ages by : Addison B. Poland
Download or read book Famous Men of the Middle Ages written by Addison B. Poland and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Men of the Middle Ages by Addison B. Poland is a collection of fascinating biographies about famous figures from medieval times. Contents: "Alaric the Visigoth (394-410 A.D.), Attila the Hun (433-453 A.D.), Genseric the Vandal (427-477 A.D.), Theodoric the Ostrogoth (475-526 A.D.), Clovis (481-511 A.D.), Justinian (527-565 A.D.), Mohammed (570-632 A.D.), Charles Martel and Pepin (714-768 A.D.)."
Book Synopsis Who's who in the Middle Ages by : John Fines
Download or read book Who's who in the Middle Ages written by John Fines and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the lives of men and women who dominated the time between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. Each portrait provides a historical outline of a life and assesses that life in relation to the contemporary background.
Book Synopsis Key Figures in Medieval Europe by : Richard K. Emmerson
Download or read book Key Figures in Medieval Europe written by Richard K. Emmerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Key Figures in Medieval Europe brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the on-going series, the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, or the arts. Individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia are included as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. A thematic outline is included that lists people not only by categories, but also by regions. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.
Book Synopsis An Annotated Index of Medieval Women by : Anne Echols
Download or read book An Annotated Index of Medieval Women written by Anne Echols and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Middle Ages written by Miri Rubin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles. Including stories of kingship and Christian salvation, agriculture and trade, Rubin demonstrates the remarkable nature and legacy of the Middle Ages.
Book Synopsis Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by : Verena Krebs
Download or read book Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe written by Verena Krebs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
Book Synopsis Medieval Lives by : Norman F. Cantor
Download or read book Medieval Lives written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-02-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversations between them and their counterparts.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome by :
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Biography by : Thomas J. Heffernan
Download or read book Sacred Biography written by Thomas J. Heffernan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new critical method that has important implications for the practice of textual criticism.
